1734 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1734.
Events
- March 29 – Louis-Gabriel Guillemain becomes first violinist at the Royal Academy in Dijon.
- April 23 – Johann Sebastian Bach gives the Leipzig première of Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel's Passion Oratorio Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.
- The London subscription company called the Royal Academy of Music is wound up as a result of difficulties including arguments between Handel and his singers.
- Approximate date of the William Dixon manuscript of music for the Border pipes.
Classical music
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Harpsichord Concerto in E-flat major, H.404
- Johann Michael Bach – Fürchtet euch nicht
- Johann Sebastian Bach – 3 Choräle zu Trauungen, BWV 250–252
- Antonio Caldara – Il giuoco del quadriglio
- Christoph Graupner
- *Ouverture in G major, GWV 466
- *Tut Busse und lasse sich ein jeglicher, GWV 1104/34
- *Herr, die Wasserströme erheben sich, GWV 1115/34
- George Frideric Handel – Antiphons, HWV 269–274
- Johann Adolf Hasse – Il cantico de' tre fanciulli
- Giovanni Battista Martini – Litaniae atque antiphonae finales B. V. Mariae
- Johann Joachim Quantz – 6 Flute Sonatas, RISM Q.19
- Georg Reutter – La Betulia liberata
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- *6 Concerts et 6 Suites
- *Pyrmonter Kurwoche
- *12 Solos à violon ou traversiere avec la basse chiffrée
- Antonio Vivaldi
- *Violin Concerto in C major, RV 177
- *Vengo a voi, luci adorate, RV 682
Opera
- Francesco Araia – La forza dell'amore e dell'odio
- Riccardo Broschi – Artaserse
- Antonio Caldara
- *La Clemenza di Tito
- *Le Lodi d'Augusto
- Giovanni Battista Costanzi – La Flora
- Geminiano Giacomelli – Merope
- George Frideric Handel
- *Il pastor fido, HWV 8b/c
- *Arianna in Creta, HWV 32
- *Ariodante, HWV 33
- *Parnasso in festa, HWV 73
- Johann Adolf Hasse – Larinda e Vanesio
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – Adriano in Siria
- Antonio Vivaldi – L'Olimpiade
- Various – ''Siface''
Publications
- Johann Sebastian Bach – 149 Chorales, D-LEb Peters Ms. R 18
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
- *6 Sonates dont la derniere est en trio, Op. 50
- *6 Sonatas for Flute and Violin, Op. 51
- *4 Balets de village en trio, Op. 52
- Michel Corrette – Premier Livre de Pièces pour le Clavecin, Op. 12
- Jean-François Dandrieu – Pieces de clavecin, Book 3
- Pierre Février – Pièces de clavecin, Livre 1
- George Frideric Handel – Op. 3, 6 concerti grossi
- Jean-Marie Leclair – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 5
- Johann Melchior Molter – Sonata grossa in D major, MWV 4.5
- Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville – 6 Trio Sonatas, Op. 2
- Jean-Baptiste Morin – La chasse du cerf
- Giovanni Battista Somis – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 6
- Giuseppe Tartini – Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
- Georg Philipp Telemann – Verzeichniß der Telemannischen Musikalischen Werke
- Carlo Tessarini – Il maestro e discepolo, Op. 2
Births
- January 17 – François-Joseph Gossec
- February 20 – Franz Ignaz Beck
- March 18 – Joseph Schmitt
- April 19 – Karl von Ordoñez, composer
- May 28 – Christoph Sonnleithner
- June 19 – Alphonse du Congé Dubreuil
- June 28 – Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, organist and composer
- July 15 – Johann Ernst Altenburg
- July 20 – Jean-Henri Naderman
- July 23 – Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini, composer
- August 16 – Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Théodore de Tschudi
- September 5 – Jean-Benjamin de Laborde
- September 25 – Louis-René-Édouard de Rohan
- December 18 – Jean-Baptiste Rey, conductor and composer
- December 27 – Stephen Paxton
- December 31 – Claude Joseph Dorat
- date unknown – Benjamin Cooke, organist, composer and teacher
Deaths
- February 25 – Marianna Bulgarelli, operatic soprano
- April 1 – Louis Lully, composer
- April 30 – Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki, Baroque composer
- June 13 – Nicolaus Vetter, organist and composer
- October 6 – Gottfried Reiche, trumpet player and composer
- December 17 – Charlotte Brent, operatic soprano
- date unknown – Obadiah Shuttleworth, violinist, organist and composer